{"id":57632,"date":"2018-12-26T09:26:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T09:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57632"},"modified":"2018-12-26T09:26:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T09:26:05","slug":"meet-the-woman-who-spreads-christmas-cheer-by-placing-christmas-cards-on-the-pillows-of-homeless-from-complete-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/12\/26\/meet-the-woman-who-spreads-christmas-cheer-by-placing-christmas-cards-on-the-pillows-of-homeless-from-complete-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the woman spreading Christmas cheer by sending greetings from complete strangers to homeless people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Schulte began the \u201cChristmas Card Collective\u201d last year when she asked her friends and family members to send her cards that she could pass on to the less fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>After setting a modest goal of 225 cards, Schulte was stunned to receive over 800 letters \u2013 so this year, she took to social media in the hopes of collecting even more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the most words from complete strangers. You don\u2019t know if it\u2019s someone in kindergarten, an 80-year-old lady\u2026 it\u2019s just a big beautiful bundle of Christmas spirit and giving,\u201d Schulte said as she sorted through piles of cards.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Schulte received thousands of cards with beautiful messages written on them that she distributed to homeless shelters across Canada. She even sent them to shelters in Los Angeles and Seattle this year.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/canadian-woman-collects-christmas-cards-to-place-on-homeless-peoples-pillows\/\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/canadian-woman-collects-christmas-cards-to-place-on-homeless-peoples-pillows\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Schulte began the \u201cChristmas Card Collective\u201d last year when she asked her friends and family members to send her cards that she could pass on to the less fortunate. After setting a modest goal of 225 cards, Schulte was stunned to receive over 800 letters \u2013 so this year, she took to social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}